Feature request: writeln(ClassInstance)

[n7800]

Just use ClassInstance.ToString and it will be clear even much later what you intended. And advantage: it works right now.

I agree, it's more visual. This is immediately apparent when reading the code, without running or debugging. And you don't need to know about any operator overrides, virtual function overloads, or anything else...

I was just thinking that it would be great if I could just use ...

I once had many similar ideas for the language, but working with other people's code (and my own old code), I realized that clarity is also very important. At least in this topic, the gain is very small.

[JdeHaan]

Thanks all, for the feedbacks and the discussion!
I'll stick to calling toString explicitly.

[Thaddy]

Yes, the way (one way) to do what you  want is too much involved, although possible. And I made a contrived example what needs to be done "under the hood" of the compiler. Contrived, not for use.
I hope you understand such a "feature" really needs a lot of effort inside the compiler and would completely destroy size and efficiency.

[bytebites]

Writeln(classinstance) takes ~20 lines code and it took indeed a lot of effort.